rant · moment 6 of 32
Ugg Boots, Wealthy Comedy Crowds, and the Tina Turner Question
from #179 - Sal Vulcano | The Tim Dillon Show · #179
4 min
Tim complains that comedy audiences are now wealthy women in Ugg boots and Chardonnay who only want relatable dating material, riffs on a heterosexual banker fantasy life named Colton, and wonders if Tina Turner's career benefited from being abused.
- Comedy has been invaded by wealthy white women in Ugg boots and expensive sweaters who want comics to talk about dating and avocado toast.
- Tim's rule: if you serve turkey again at Christmas, you're a psychopath and should have steak, ham, or pasta instead.
- He fantasizes about being heterosexual, a banker, dating a wealthy woman, and meeting her mother at a Princeton-adjacent family gathering.
- Tim speculates about what secret societies do in fields, imagining they perform big dance numbers chanting about Satan.
- Would Tina Turner have been better if she hadn't gotten smacked in the face, or would she have phoned it in otherwise?
- Tim argues that audiences want their entertainers to be miserable and traumatized, not healthy and happy, because that's where the best art comes from.
- Entertainment now prioritizes relatability above all else, forcing performers to enter the audience's dumb world instead of the audience entering theirs.